John Weiss

John Weiss (28 June 1818 – 9 March 1879) was an American author and clergyman, as well as a noted abolitionist.

Quotes

 * Irony is jesting hidden behind gravity. Humor is gravity concealed behind the jest.
 * Wit, Humor, and Shakespeare: Twelve essays (1876), p. 63.


 * The truest worship is a life; All dreaming we resign; We lay our offerings at Thy feet, — Our lives, O God, are Thine!
 * Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 118.